Why didn’t pandemic planning anticipate the need for lockdowns?

The world is often said to have prepared for the wrong kind of pandemic, anticipating a new strain of influenza. In fact, says Celia Blanco-Jimenez (LSE), a number of plans were in place for the rapid spread of a respiratory disease. But none anticipated that lockdowns or travel restrictions would be put in place

How our thinking about behavioural science has evolved during the pandemic

Behavioural science has sometimes seemed to be an afterthought for policymakers during the pandemic. Celia Blanco-Jimenez (LSE) rewatches two LSE events in May and November and looks at how our thinking has evolved. How have 10 months of living in a COVID world shaped behavioural scientists’ thinking, and how has it evolved? To get a ... Continue

El malestar de los jueces y el modelo judicial

En el libro recensionado, Alejandro Nieto analiza la lamentable situación de la justicia en España y se pregunta si los propios jueces son los culpables o, por el contrario, las primeras de sus victimas. La recensión analiza el contenido del libro y las opiniones de su auto

El diseño de campañas sobre el ictus y su evaluación : una revisión de 10 años de literatura científica (1999-2009)

Ictus es el nombre que reciben las manifestaciones agudas de un conjunto de enfermedades que tienen en común producir el taponamiento o ruptura de una arteria, lo que provoca que la sangre no llegue a una parte del cerebro y que las células cerebrales mueran; representan la tercera causa de muerte en el mundo occidental. La finalidad de este escrito es identificar las metodologías y estrategias de comunicación más adecuadas para la efectividad de los mensajes de prevención de episodios de ictus, centrándonos en si las campañas son evaluadas y en qué forma. Para ello, se hizo una revisión de la literatura científica de campañas de comunicación o intervenciones de educación comunitaria sobre ictus en cualquier revista médica de impacto en castellano, catalán, francés e inglés entre los años 1999 y 2009. La búsqueda de la literatura se realizó mediante palabras claves introducidas en las bases de datos Pubmed/Medline, ISI Web of Knowledge y Scopus y posterior búsqueda manual a partir de las referencias bibliográficas incluidas en los artículos seleccionados. Con posterioridad se rellenaron fichas-cuestionarios para el vaciado de los artículos. Los resultados demuestran que la evaluación de campañas de ictus es escasa y que esta suele ser cuantitativa y basada en el recuerdo.Stroke is the general name given to the acute manifestation of a series of conditions that have in common the production of a blockage or rupture of an artery, causing the blood to be unable to reach the brain and the consequent death of brain cells; it is the third cause of death in the Western world. The goal of this article is identifying the most adequate communication methodologies and strategies for the effectiveness of messages trying to prevent a stroke episode: the focus will be on discerning if the campaign has been evaluated and how. In order to reach this goal, we performed a review of scientific literature about stroke communication campaigns or community education interventions in any impact journal in Spanish, Catalan, French or English between 1999 and 2009. The literature selection was based on a keywords search on various databases (Pubmed/Medline, ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus) and a subsequent manual search from bibliography included in the selected articles. We created a database with a form per article, later on. Results show that evaluation of stroke campaigns is scarce and, when it exists, it is quantitative and based on remembrance

Cheating, incentives, and money manipulation

We use different incentive schemes to study truth-telling in a die-roll task when people are asked to reveal the number rolled privately. We find no significant evidence of cheating when there are no financial incentives associated with the reports, but do find evidence of such when the reports determine financial gains or losses (in different treatments). We find no evidence of loss aversion in the standard case in which subjects receive their earnings in a sealed envelope at the end of the session. When subjects manipulate the possible earnings, we find evidence of less cheating, particularly in the loss setting; in fact, there is no significant difference in behavior between the non-incentivized case and the loss setting with money manipulation. We interpret our findings in terms of the moral cost of cheating and differences in the perceived trust and beliefs in the gain and the loss frames

Inference of contractility evolution on planar worm locomotion

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Chagas Disease in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

American trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which affects a wide variety of hosts including the man, until now treatment options or vaccines developed are not enough to control or prevent infected cases. The main way of transmission is vectorial, through insects of the Reduviidae family, as well by congenital transmission, blood/organ transplants or oral transmission. Chagas disease are considered as endemic in many areas due to the presence and lack of control of insect vectors. Many touristic places in Latin America are located in endemic areas; however, there is a nonexistence of knowledge by touristic service providers about the theme. For that reason, there is a latent risk that tourists who come to vacation in endemic areas are exposed get the infection. The risk factors are well identified, and this allows that well-defined prevention strategies can be established in order to avoid the presentation of cases in visitors to the tourist zones. This chapter aimed to describe the situation of Chagas disease in touristic areas of the Caribbean of America Latina as and to provide a brief review of information that allows visitors to know about the epidemiology and potential risks of this infection

Paula Barreiro López, Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain

La dictature franquiste (1939-1975) a inévitablement marqué la vie espagnole de cette époque. Toutes les activités en relation avec la création ont souffert des rigueurs du pouvoir autoritaire, qu’elles se plient à ses exigences propagandistes, qu’elles y résistent ou bien qu’elles prennent l’une des infinies positions intermédiaires. Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Franquist Spain porte son attention sur la critique de l’art des dernières décennies du Franquisme. En partant du constat qu’il..

El principio variacional de Ekeland y aplicaciones

En este trabajo se estudia el Principio Variacional de Ekeland y algunas aplicaciones a la teoría de puntos críticos y a ecuaciones diferenciales parciales. Se prueba a partir del Principio Variacional de Ekeland el Teorema del Paso de la Montaña y el Teorema de Punto de Silla; también se demuestra la existencia de soluciones débiles para problemas de Dirichlet semilineal.Maestrí